ROYALS players have teamed up with Thames Water to help wash away fears of a water shortage.

Every summer, water companies get into a lather trying to promote water conservation and now Reading players want to help.

Water-saving tips will be flashed on the scoreboard of future home games and in match programmes.

Royals sales and marketing manager Boyd Butler said: "By encouraging our supporters to take up the water-saving tips and devices from Thames Water we could save thousands of litres of water every year.

"If every supporter fitted a water-saving device in their toilet cistern that would mean a saving of a staggering 60,000 litres of water each time they all flushed the toilet."

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